Augsburg Fortress

The Way of Jesus Christ: Christology in Messianic Dimensions

The Way of Jesus Christ discusses the following topics: 1. The symbol of the way embodies the aspect of process and brings out christology's alignment...

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Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity

Gary Dorrien's major work addresses the roots of and remedy to the current crisis in American Christian social ethics. Focusing on the story of American...

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The Paradoxical Vision: A Public Theology for the Twenty-First Century

Robert Benne elaborates a basic theological-–ethical framework for engaging the Christian vision with its surrounding public...

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Ecumenism: The Vision of the ELCA

English text with Spanish, German, and French translations. This volume presents the policy statement on ecumenical commitment of the Evangelical Lutheran...

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The Church in the Power of the Spirit

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God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God

The title expresses the book's intention: not to go on distinguishing between God and the world, so as then to surrender the world, as godless, to its...

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The Trinity and the Kingdom

“A creative rethinking of the Trinity in Light of human suffering. . . In the suffering of Christ we see that we have a God...

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The Body of God: An Ecological Theology

Award-winning theologian Sallie McFague here develops a striking and novel vision of the universe, one that takes seriously and radically both contemporary...

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Karl Rahner: Theologian of the Graced Search for Meaning

Karl Rahner's (1904--1984) vast erudition, deeply creative proposals in all the key theological areas, and pervasive influence made him one of the giants of...

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Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition

A unique anthology. Barbara MacHaffie has collected into one volume 74 of the most important Christian documents and passages by and about women. Ranging...

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Friedrich Schleiermacher: Pioneer of Modern Theology

Schleiermacher, a German theologian at the turn of the nineteenth century, is truly one of the masters of modern theology: he sought to rebuild Protestant...

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Rudolf Bultmann: Interpreting Faith for the Modern Era

Bultmann's pioneering study of the New Testament initiated a new era in biblical studies in the Twentieth Century. Together with Karl Barth, Bultmann broke...

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Paul Tillich: Theologian of the Boundaries

Paul Tillich, forced into exile by the Nazis in 1933, settled in the United States. His many theological works and especially his three volume Systematic...

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Reinhold Niebuhr: Theologian of Public Life

Reinhold Niebuhr, the most significant North American theologian since the eighteenth century, has decisively influenced the shape of Christian thought and...

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Making Moral Decisions: A Christian Approach to Personal and Social Ethics

The question "What am I to do?" needs the balance and completion of "What are we to do?" With clarity and insight Jersild addresses the particular need of...

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Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context

"As the Christian movement nears the end of its second millennium, it faces a crisis that could not have been anticipated at the close of the first thousand...

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The Meaning and End of Religion

Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He...

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God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy

"God does not appear in the modern market. For most economists this is as it should be. It is in no way necessary, according to modern economic theory, to...

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Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age

In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other...

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Six Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics

There may be no more urgent cry today than that of "justice" -- and no more frequent accusation than that of "injustice." But what is meant when these terms...

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